In-medium hadron–nucleon total cross sections inferred from quasifree scattering Original Research Article

The target-mass dependence of hadron–nucleus quasifree scattering is used to select the hadron–nucleon total cross sections within the nuclear medium that yield the observed mass-dependence in a Glauber model. These in-medium cross sections are larger than found in free space for 705 MeV/c K+, but smaller than in free space for protons and pions at several energies.